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holarctic

holarctic adjective: distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.

Adjective (1)

holarctic (not comparable)

  1. Distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.
    • It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix

Adjective (2) capitalized: Holarctic

Holarctic (not comparable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of holarctic.

Forms of holarctic

alternative formHolarctic

Origin of holarctic

From holo- + Arctic.

Questions about holarctic

What does holarctic mean?
Holarctic means distributed in a geographic range around the North Pole; restricted to Arctic regions.
What part of speech is holarctic?
Holarctic is an adjective.

Words near holarctic in the dictionary

  1. Holans
  2. holantosine
  3. HOLAP
  4. holarchies
  5. holarchy
  6. holarctic
  7. holarctically
  8. holard
  9. holards
  10. Holargos
  11. holarosine

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